"Your Majesty, what Lord Yang said is reasonable, but I think that if a giant dragon is really carved on this stone wall, it is indeed spectacular to watch from the river, but why are there no poetry and songs mentioned? Could it be that all the literati and poets since the Song Dynasty have not been met at first?" Chen Zhenhui said.

Yang Ai's idea is very clever, and Chen Zhenhui's doubts also have some truth.

One is to infer from the theory of painting, and the other is to argue from the perspective of cultural heritage. It is really hard to say who is right and who is wrong.

"Also, Your Majesty, from ancient times to the present, any dragon carving has basically been a dragon that has seen its head but not its tail, which shows the dragon's looming appearance and endlessness. To me, I think of it, this dragon cannot escape this mortar - since the dragon's tail is seen, it is impossible for people to see the dragon's head." Gu Yanwu also expressed his rebuttal.

Yang Ai didn't expect that her idea was refuted by Chen Zhenhui and Gu Yanwu, but what they said was very reasonable and she couldn't stand it.

"What you said makes sense. In short, it is impossible for the one who carved the dragon's tail to be carved here. There will definitely be a dragon body and a dragon head. As long as you find it, everything will be understood. According to what Yang Aiqing said, according to the painting principle, clean up all the weeds, trees and rocks in the places where the dragon body may pass, and see if there are no traces." Zhu Youlang ordered.

"Yes, I obey the order." Zhang Tongchang agreed and directed his men to start cleaning up.

Zhu Youlang, Gu Yanwu, Chen Zhenhui, and Yang Ai walked aside, and Li Hong laid a cotton pad on a rock to let Zhu Youlang sit down.

The engineers brought a complete range of tools, including shovels, picks and chisels, and soon all the weeds and rocks were cleared out.

"Your Majesty, no trace was found." Zhang Tongchang came over to report to Zhu Youlang.

When Zhu Youlang heard this, he couldn't help but feel puzzled: "No? How is that possible?"

"Maybe, the dragon's carving owner intentionally covered the whereabouts of the dragon's head." Yang Ai felt embarrassed when he saw that his speculation had proved to be a basisless conjecture, and said weakly without any reason.

"Intentionally cover it up? Yes, it must be intentionally cover it up!" Zhu Youlang's mind flashed with inspiration, as if he had suddenly discovered the essence of the matter.

"Bieshan, chisel the stone path under the dragon's tail!" Zhu Youlang said.

"I obey the order." Zhang Tongchang took the order.

Gu Yanwu and Chen Zhenhui looked at each other, but no one spoke.

They disagreed with this, thinking that the emperor was intending to fight for Yang Ai's face.

When Yang Ai heard this, he thought to himself: "Is the emperor protecting my face? Isn't the stone carving path the same as the mountain carving? Could it be that I am so important in his mind? My words are so easy to use? Then I can't talk nonsense in the future. Otherwise, if the government is in chaos, it will be bad, wouldn't it leave a bad reputation in history?"

Thinking of this, while feeling sweet, I was secretly reminding myself.

"Your Majesty, the stones on the stone path are built back, and there are traces!"

Just when the monarch and his ministers had their own confidants, Zhang Tongchang rushed over to report.

Oh? It was built up later? That is to say, does artificially concealed possibility exist?

Gu Yanwu and Chen Zhenhui looked at each other, and were ashamed of their dirty mentality just now.

"Chizi open it and see if there are any dragon patterns and carvings." Zhu Youlang said in a desperate attempt.

"yes."

Zhang Tongchang took the order and left.

"Your Majesty, I discovered the dragon pattern!" After a while, Zhang Tongchang came back excitedly, the joy on his face could not be concealed, and he smiled as innocently as a child.

"Haha, that's right, it means that Yang Aiqing's judgment is right. Okay, you guys clean it up, I'll go back to the boat to rest."

...

Zhang Tongchang's engineers cleaned up for three consecutive days and finally found the dragon body.

As Yang Ai judged, the dragon body and the dragon tail were connected, but not carved on the stone wall, but folded at the stone path and stretched towards the Minjiang River.

The entire dragon was covered with stones, so it was difficult to find.

The dragon head is still not seen, it is obviously in the river.

Zhu Youlang ordered Chen Zhongwu to find two soldiers with excellent water character and go down to the bottom of the river to investigate.

"Your Majesty, I'm so happy! I'm so happy!" Chen Zhongwu shouted loudly. Before entering the cabin door, he could hear his ecstasy from his voice.

Zhu Youlang frowned when he heard this and said to himself, "This Li Er is in the same way as his father, both are thick! What does it mean to be overjoyed? Is it okay to marry your girl? Can you read some books? Isn't it better to be more stable?"

Chen Zhongwu came in, Gu Yanwu and Zhang Tongchang followed him, and their mouths were also grinning behind the ears.

"Your Majesty, I'm so happy!" Chen Zhongwu danced with his hands and didn't even greet him when he entered the cabin. He still danced and chirped.

"Shut up! If you can't speak, close your mouth!" Zhu Youlang scolded.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with me? Is it really a big joy?" Chen Zhongwu said in a daze, not knowing why his brother-in-law was unhappy.

"Cedar, you said, have you found the dragon head?" Zhu Youlang wanted to kick him, and he knew nothing.

"Your Majesty, it's not that Mr. Chen is really happy to come from the sky." Gu Yanwu couldn't stop smiling, and his hands and feet seemed to be putting them.

"Have you found the dragon head? Is it worth it to make you so happy that you are at a loss?" Zhu Youlang couldn't help but say something strange when he saw Gu Yanwu losing his former stability.

"Return to Your Majesty, I have a clear investigation. Lord Yang made a good judgment. The dragon head is indeed at the bottom of the river. It is nothing to find the dragon head. The key is that the dragon mouth is open, with a cave inside and an iron fence at the entrance. Uncle Chen ordered someone to saw the iron fence open. Gu Yanwu said that the key point was that he kept it in a snatch.

"What's wrong? Is there a treasure inside?" Zhu Youlang suppressed his excitement and asked anxiously.

"Isn't that?" Gu Yanwu slapped his thighs excitedly: "The cave is high inside and low outside, and there are indeed a large number of ships inside, with thousands of them!"

Well, for the sake of the good news you have brought, I forgive your lord for losing his manners.

"Is there all the gold and silver on the ship?" Zhu Youlang's voice changed with excitement.

Thousands of ships of gold and silver are huge wealth. Now all problems can be solved.

"No, according to the soldiers' return, the ship was bare and nothing was found." Gu Yanwu said unhappily.

Why are you happy without gold and silver? You scratch your ears and slap your thighs?

Zhu Youlang gave Gu Yanwu a blank look and felt a little disappointed.

"Your Majesty, although there is no gold or silver on the ship, as long as there is a ship, it means that the nursery rhyme is true, and there must be a mystery in the cave. Do you think so?" Gu Yanwu said.

"Yes, if there is no treasure, who can't do anything to get so many boats hidden in the cave? And I'll get some iron fences to stop it? There must be articles here!" Zhu Youlang said intimately.

“Is there an exit on the mountain?”

"Yes, it has been found. Without His Majesty's will, no one dares to enter."
Chapter completed!